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Cigarettes, Space Invaders and the birth of the game watch

lying cars, robot servants, personal jetpacks: This was the life envisioned for us by the futurists, science fiction writers and gadget makers of the '40s, '50s and '60s. And one of the most memorable of those fictional inventions was the famed Dick ...

www.polygon.comDecember 7, 2015

Motorola Moto 360 (2015) review: what the original should have been

The button has also been moved to the two o'clock mark, which makes it easier to press. The new 360 is available in three sizes. Two men's versions with either a 42mm or a 46mm diameter case, or a woman's 42mm variant with a thinner strap. I tested the ...

www.theguardian.comOctober 30, 2015

Lessons For The Future From The World's First Smartwatch

Launched in 1991 when the smartphone was still almost a decade away – the first GSM digital network deployed the same year, so this was right at the start of the digital era of mobile communications – Casio continue to sell the watch to this day. While ...

www.forbes.comMarch 29, 2015

Apple Watch vs. Android Wear, Pebble and Samsung Gear

Android Wear's functions are limited to a particular set of functions: none of them have speakers, so you can't make phone calls or hear alarms. Google's Android Wear OS hides apps behind an ugly scrolling menu of suggested Google Now voice commands, ...

Trying On the Apple Watch: Natural Feel, Fewer Distractions

Why would you want to buy an Apple Watch? I'm still trying to figure that out. On Monday, Apple AAPL 3.32 % presented not one but dozens of uses for its first new kind of gadget since the iPad. In fact, CEO Tim Cook's sales pitch was more about ...

www.wsj.comMarch 9, 2015

Puzzle Box is Rigged to Blow

Just wire up a simple box with wire of all the same color, 5 minute nanosecond LCD timer, and a car alarm. Alarm keeps going off until defused. Also canister of automotive NO2 (“I need NOS yo”), it will smell like rotten farts but he might get a laugh ...

hackaday.comJuly 23, 2015

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Whether you love or hate what electronics have meant in watchmaking, there's no doubt that the development of electrical and electronic timepieces, from very early electrical pendulum clocks of the early 19th century to the first quartz clocks of... Today the word "smart watch" is one we all know, but this was the very first of that breed, from nearly 40 years ago. Let's review, from Hewlett Packard, the intriguing and amazingly sophisticated HP-01. You probably fondly remember the Casio calculator from your youth – well, the HP-01 could be considered its mastermind ancestor, reaching an unprecedented level... In truth, the HP-01 was not the very first calculator watch ever produced – sorry about that Wikipedia , Calcron and Pulsar deserve that honor for their respective 1975 launches – but the HP-01 was undoubtedly smarter, much smarter. Or as its advertising puts it: "With the HP-01, you can compute and then count down the time it takes for a command to reach a spacecraft several hundred million miles away. As Hewlett-Packard boasted at the time: "The HP-01 is a digital electronic.

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From sun hats to shoe dryers: gifts for the traveler

This packable National Geographic travel alarm clock projects the time onto the ceiling in easy-to-read numbers. An LCD screen with a luminous backlight displays the time, date, day and temperature. ($49.95; shopng.org) National Geographic GPS-Enabled ...

www.seattletimes.comNovember 30, 2015

Christmas Presents: Top 10 Best Gifts for Hockey Fans

The NHL Goal Light Alarm Clock is 4×4 and comes with an authentic goal horn alarm sound, flashing LED lights, SNOOZE function, and LCD clock display. It also includes all 30 NHL team labels so you can support your team. Batteries included. This clock will ...

heavy.comNovember 27, 2015

Computerworld's holiday gift guide 2015: Nifty tech from $35 to $150

LCD, a removable waterproof housing ... is on -- a model in electricity efficiency. The iHome K2 clock radio (model iKN105) is two -- or really, five -- gifts in one. To start with, it's a dual-alarm clock radio; that's two right there.

Clapperboard Digital Alarm Clock – all the world’s a stage

Even if you don’t do that, this Alarm Clock does seem pretty cool for the actor-types that like to have reminders of their profession all over the place. This has an LCD 24 hour clock display that shows military time. It will give you the hour ...

www.coolest-gadgets.comNovember 25, 2015

Instead of buying something this Friday, fix something

In between taking care of her four kids as a stay-at-home mother, she spends her days casually recovering priceless data from water-damaged iPads that would no one else would ever bother touching, or fixing short circuits that cause the iPad LCD backlight ...

grist.orgNovember 25, 2015

Gifts that will make that trip even more fun

The Bluetooth alarm clock/timer is paired with Apple products (Android is in ... It has a wide-angle lens, image stabilization and a 180-degree adjustable LCD monitor that is helpful for selfies. GPS and Wi-Fi are built in. A free iOS and Android app ...